Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3bb36f0e84422c1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 18:52:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: cb3a6ee7a2b7d835259ed815beb47e53 SHA-1: 572bd6f0a6f3b1a932cd2ab0b48e6d98a451c7dd SHA-256: 3bb36f0e84422c1a972bb42e3c7b6acb85b497e331d58b20748d9bf52afc09c5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65349b1d23c57709cfc351c539e9a1e8/3534491243.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://x-site.by/upload/editor/files/tubaleragolatonarun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97543de5a8c51e148f4f6728e60aeca2/85697805561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuepancong.com/contents//files/55287593911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607593f63219a---2693744711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/genaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mynigaoe.com/upload/file/20210526125555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ues-rb.ru/themes/ues-rb.ru/files/zadedutoruvufadudimibaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clairerolo.com/userfiles/file/xuzufaritafewaxamomageken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infypos.com/infyposcms/media/29497332308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aecf91db9b---bojosemule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soflcops.com/clients/83267/File/robaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1b520aa97---finuwojew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609149f574502---46850140791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/warubenuwol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093c9bdac8f7---sibime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cemb.ca/upload/editor/file/luzorepusesubix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qdr6ju1b6fbs3440k484mu5ojj/82230306466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-pointpro.com/cms/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59348103449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espressoperfetto.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/26133642287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/94539038942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/81465216907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6aa8bb79ae924e0651f42438ffa61f56/bozezazogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seto.cz/uploads/jimudesovimipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamfieldrental.com/userfiles/file/38668910311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+teach+paragraph+writing+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d9eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9EB 17316 bytes
SHA-256: 48c4fd0b98d5808bfb00ffbb28fb3c05ffb88f24c4e44c92c591b5146a706ed9
font_01_sfnt_off00010689.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10689 10760 bytes
SHA-256: e87b5cce8fa2affaca506562890f7a9baa02e911bb1c6eb0d17785719d74fda6
font_02_sfnt_off00011f0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F0C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1